Global Side Effects: Counter-Clinics in Mental Health Care

Davis, Elizabeth B.

doi:10.1080/01459740.2017.1367777

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“…The community led-palliative centers have the virility, vigor, and vitality to be "counter-clinics" (Davis 2018) or potential alternative spaces outside, alongside or oppositional to mainstream psychiatric settings. However, with the redefinition of the community care into CMH care, plural, rights-based, dialogical, and ecological approaches in health interventions are giving way to a singular discourse and practice in mental health where trained community volunteers pitch for a large tent of "patients" in need of "treatment."…”

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Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala: Tensions and Ruptures

Kottai

Ranganathan

2020

Medical Anthropology

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Based on an ethnography of community mental health programs run by two NGOs in Kerala which have associated themselves with preexisting, locally grown, community-based palliative clinics, this article explores how professional NGOs bring a new culture to volunteer-based programs. Professionalizing volunteers through task-shifting results in the transformation of their philosophy of community care, which constrains and narrows understandings of mental health care. The state, in alliance with psychiatric NGOs, front-stages development through aggressive task-shifting which we argue is a socio-politico-moral process, disrupting the shared consciousness between volunteers and their own communities with fatal consequences for their most vulnerable citizens.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala: Tensions and Ruptures

Kottai

Ranganathan

2020

Medical Anthropology

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“…Our research methods need to be adaptable, transparent, and readily available. Anthropological methods are well adapted to examining health systems, gathering data to prepare for or respond to crises, including pandemics (Sangaramoorthy and Kroeger 2020), building on clinical ethnography to capture data connecting events at multiple scales and intersecting interests (Davis 2018). Traditionally, qualitative methods have been employed to analyze data in response to health crises, such as infectious disease outbreaks like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2016, and more recently, COVID-19 (Vindrola-Padros et al 2020).…”

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Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic

Azevedo

Kalvesmaki

Riendeau

et al. 2022

American Anthropologist

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This commentary asks anthropologists to work within communities to actively address the global mental health impact of COVID‐19 and contribute to the pandemic response. Multiple social and physical losses, worsened by numerous factors, have produced syndemic traumatic stress and suffering across populations, highlighting persistent inequalities further amplified by the effects of COVID‐19. Specifically, anthropologists can work to contribute to the development of mental health programs; confront the racialization of COVID‐19 alongside marginalized communities; support real‐time policy making with community responses; and innovate transparent collaborative research methods through open science. This pandemic can serve as an opportunity to prioritize research endeavors, public service, and teaching to better align with societal needs while providing new opportunities for synergy and collaborations between anthropologists in and outside the academy. Anthropologists collaborating directly with mental health clinicians and the public can contribute to knowledge specifically through direct program development and implementation of interventions designed to improve mental well‐being. Innovating to find impactful solutions in response to the unprecedented mental health challenges exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic has the potential to promote more equitable recovery around the world.

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“…2017), cautioned against the silencing produced by the Anglophone bias in global mental health arising from particular colonial, political and psychiatric histories. Also muted are voices from what have been dubbed 'counter clinics' ( Davis 2018), which adopt approaches to engaging with mental distress drawing on political, social or religious orientations that diverge from normative clinical practices in centers of global psychiatric influence, be they in the US or India (see Béhague, this volume). This troubles the usual comparisons between global and local, or highincome or low-income countries, as sources of influence and innovation in global mental health.…”

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“…Critical anthropologists and others are concerned that that global mental health arouses political sentiments akin to earlier colonial suspicion against traditional healing and epistemologies (Cooper 2015). The wide treatment gap attributed to the global South is seen by some to be ''structurally blind'' (Sax 2014) to ritual healing, with the result that the latter is sometimes criminalized (Sood 2016) and the mental health care provided by already existing alternatives to psychiatry are ignored, destroyed (Davar 2017) or not counted as ''treatment'' within the confines of 'evidence-based' definitions (Bartlett, Garriott, and Raikhel 2014;Davis 2018). Scholars like Murphy Halliburton attribute the well-known reports of better recovery rates for schizophrenia and other mental illnesses in low-income countries (Hopper et al 2007) to this pluralism (Halliburton 2004).…”

Section: Critics and The Construction Of Global Mental Healthmentioning

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Genealogies and Anthropologies of Global Mental Health

Lovell

Read

Lang

2019

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Within the proliferation of studies identified with global mental health, anthropologists rarely take global mental health itself as their object of inquiry. The papers in this special issue were selected specifically to problematize global mental health. To contextualize them, this introduction critically weighs three possible genealogies through which the emergence of global health can be explored: (1) as a divergent thread in the qualitative turn of global health away from earlier international health and development; (2) as the product of networks and social movements; and (3) as a diagnostically-and metrics-driven psychiatric imperialism, reinforced by pharmaceutical markets. Each paper tackles a different component of the assemblage of global mental health: knowledge production and circulation, global mental health principles enacted in situ, and subaltern modalities of healing through which global mental health can be questioned. Pluralizing anthropology, the articles include research sites in meeting rooms, universities, research laboratories, clinics, healers and health screening camps, households, and the public spaces of everyday life,

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Global Side Effects: Counter-Clinics in Mental Health Care

Cited by 22 publications

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Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala: Tensions and Ruptures

Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala: Tensions and Ruptures

Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic

Genealogies and Anthropologies of Global Mental Health

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